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Climate activists threaten to shut down world's major coal sites
2016-03-01 08:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate activists will use direct action to try to shut down major coal sites across the world in May, including the UKs largest opencast coal mine in south Wales. The dozen international sites facing civil disobedience from the Break Free 2016 campaign span the globe from the US to Australia and South Africa to Indonesia. The Ffos-y-fran opencast mine, near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales, is about halfway through extracting 11m tonnes of coal. Ellie Groves, from the Reclaim the Power network, said:...
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